"Fridays for Future" ist der Inbegriff einer globalen Klimaschutz-Bewegung. Aus einer Aktion der schwedischen Schülerin Greta Thunberg hat sich in kurzer Zeit eine weltweite Bewegung entwickelt. Klimaschutz steht ganz oben auf der Agenda, egal ob in Wirtschaft oder Wissenschaft, in Ministerien...

The debate over modernizing the financial structure is raising questions about the merits of modernizing the financial regulatory structure. Regulatory structure is important because an almost unavoidable feature of our current system of government is that Congress assigns multiple goals that...

Ongoing experiments with results-based aid (RBA), a development cooperation modality that disburses grants or loans in response to the achievement of pre-defined results, constitute an important and influential trend in international development cooperation. This discussion paper seeks to...

Whilst it is generally accepted that a shift of taxation from labour to consumption has positive effects on employment and is growth enhancing, such a policy reform is often not pursued due to equity considerations. In this paper we challenge these considerations by arguing that a fiscal...

Der Klimawandel, verschiedene Krankheiten oder demografische Veränderungen wie alternde Bevölkerung in den OECD-Staaten stellen globale gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen dar, auf die alle Länder Antworten suchen. Forschung und Innovation können wesentliche Beiträge zur Bewältigung dieser...